PIXABAY, VONSINNENEach year across the globe, the consumption of soda and other sweet drinks is associated with about 184,000 deaths related to diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer, according to an analysis published in Circulation this week (June 29).
“The study is not a randomized controlled trial, so one can’t be certain that it was the sugar-sweetened beverages causing the deaths,” Liz Ruder of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center who was not part of the study told NBC News. “But because the authors have employed sophisticated statistical techniques and they have rich food consumption data I believe that these data are likely to be accurate.
The authors of the study, led by Dariush Mozaffarian at Tufts University, collected data from dozens of surveys on diet along with the results of other studies linking sugary drinks with untoward health effects. They used these data to model the contribution of sweet beverages to mortality around the world. Their estimates include 133,000 deaths from diabetes, 45,000 ...
